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From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller
and Oprah's Book Club selection "House of
Sand and Fog"--a new big-hearted, painful,
page-turning novel.
One early September night in Florida, a stripper brings her
daughter to work. April's usual babysitter is in the hospital,
so she decides it's best to have her three-year-old daughter
close by, watching children's videos in the office, while
she works.
Except that April works at the Puma Club for Men. And tonight
she has an unusual client, a foreigner both remote and too
personal, and free with his money. Lots of it, all cash. His
name is Bassam. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown
out of the club for holding hands with his favorite stripper,
and he's drunk and angry and lonely.
From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, searing,
passionate, page-turning narrative, a big-hearted and painful
novel about sex and parenthood and honor and masculinity.
Set in the seamy underside of American life at the moment
before the world changed, it juxtaposes lust for domination
with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love.
It seizes the reader by the throat with the same psychological
tension, depth, and realism that characterized Andre Dubus's
#1 bestseller, "House of Sand and Fog"--and
an even greater sense of the dark and anguished places in
the human heart.
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